Understanding the root problems of information disorder requires understanding hard-wired human behaviours, economic and political policy, group psychology and ideologies, and the relationship to people’s sense of individual and community identity. Misinformation and disinformation do not exist in a vacuum. The spread of false and misleading narratives, the incitement of division and hate, and the erosion of trust have a long history, with corporate, state actor, and political persuasion techniques employed to maintain power and profit, create harm, and/or advance...